View a FREE sample

Chapter 1: Flames Across the Water - Chapter 10: Treasures in a Cigar Box

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Draper, Sharon M. Stella by Starlight. Atheneum Books, 2015. E-book.

• Chapter 1: Flames Across the Water begins on page 1.

• When the novel begins, 11-year-old Stella Mills and her younger brother, eight-year-old Jojo, are secretly watching a Ku Klux Klan rally unfold.

• Nine Klan members are wearing robes and there is a cross burning in the middle of the rally.

• The narrator reveals that when Jojo heard noises late at night while using the outhouse, he went back to the house and fetched Stella.

• Now they are watching the rally unfold near Kilkenny Pond.

• Stella notices that one of the horses is wearing a harness that looks familiar to her as it seems "to sparkle in the darkness" (2).

• She realizes that the horse and harness belong...

(read more Chapter Abstracts)

This section contains 5,615 words (approx. 19 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample